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1月24日 Stephanie:Ok this will be my second attempt to post this. I attempted tp post around 1am this morning but after i was done the post disappeared. Yesterday was a long day. I ended up having to work 16 hours and missed my Zumba class. I was bummed. I did not get off work til about 11:45pm. I was so tired but I had not gotten my exercise in. I really wanted to go home and the entire car ride, I kept telling myself I can go home, I can exercise in the morning. But I drove to the gym. I was just going to walk on the treadmill a little, but once I started walking, I got my energy back. I even worked myself up to running for 2 minutes this time. Baby steps. I would like to be able to run for 5 minutes in a month. Of course after I got home, I crashed. A nap sounds good about now. Have a great day. 1月22日 Shelley: Bad DayToday was not a good day for many reasons. I did stay within points but didn't exercise. I will be pushing it the next few days to get my points. I still have not used one single flex point this week. I'm going into my two school days. Well, I agree with Steph on the Biggest Loser. I think if you are proven to throw a weigh in that it should automatically be considered a disqualification or your following weigh in is penalized. The orange team should have gone home. I can't believe they are still there after that. Kudo's to the yellow team for winning. However, if i were them I would be wondering if they would have won had the orange team had not thrown the competition. WIth that being said, Paul's determination to lose really inspired me. He got up in the middle of the night to exercise. I would call that motivation! They took the challenge and ran with it. I'm going to have a better day tomorrow. I will ace my test, exercise, and eat right. Steph, thank you for the texts today. I'll be texting you throughout the day tomorrow. Stephanie: TuesdayWhat a emotional Biggest Loser. I was rooting for the yellow team to beat the average, but I was glad to see the black team won immunity. I know they were trying to stay in the game, but to pick off the pink team because they voted for them was poor sportsmanship. Betty-Sue and Ali consistently put up the numbers and they have not fallen below the yellow line. Purple team has fallen below the yellow line continuously and threw the weigh in. But because they promised to have the yellow team's back, they got to stay. I would love for the orange team to get booted off next. Then purple, followed by the blue team. All I have to say is I hope Bob and Jillian work those who did not put the numbers up this week harder than ever. On my end, I got my exercise in. I am still feeling my Zumba workout yesterday. Shelley and I have been texting our meals and points trying to stay in line. I measured myself today and I lost another inch at the waist. Yippee. I am going to continue to lose the pounds and inches. I have the support of my family, friends, and most importantly my fellow weight loss mamma. 1月21日 Shelley: Doing BetterI'm doing much better. I really half to up my exercise. I noticed Steph is doing a class. I'm so proud of her and am glad that she is enoying herself. To give myself a little break, even if I had a Y membership I couldn't do it because of my foot. Oh well! I am doing my exercises and staying within points. I'm three days into the new week and no flex yet. Yipppeee!!!!!! It just takes a little extra work and determination. I'm determined and am going to accomplish. I want to say goodbye to the 240's this week. I don't want to ever see them again. I know I'm going to do it. Hard work will bring results. Stephanie: Zumba babyI joined a new class today at the Y. They are doing Zumba classes. I don't know how many of you know what that is. I didn't even know until I saw an infomercial on it. It is a dance class with latin and international music. You really move your body. Time flew by. It was a great work out and I really felt great after it. I am looking forward to going again. 1月19日 Shelley: A Little Less of MeOkay, I only lost .6 pounds. I'm at 240.6. It's not a big loss I know but a loss none the less. Yes, Steph won the challenge again last week. She better cherish the bracelet because I'm going to get it next week. I know why my loss wasn't that big and it's okay. I had a hard week last week and I need to learn to not let stress get to me. It's a new week. I'm going to have a big loss next week. Congrats Steph on the win and the huge loss! I'm so proud of you! Stephanie: What a difference a week can make.WhoooooooooooHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I lost 3.8lbs this week. I am so happy to see the scale move after my slight gain last week. It feels good. I definitely pushed it this week with the exercise. I am glad to see the cheese fiasco did not do much damage. I got in a 45 minute walk today. So I started earning my activity points for the week. Shelley is going to give me a run for the bracelet this week. She wants to wear it. Have a great day. 1月17日 Shelley: Tough DayToday was a tough day. I ate too much for lunch and really wanted to eat even a lot more for supper. Stephanie saved me. She texted me and gently talked me out of eating the chinese that I thought I wanted. I had chicken and baked potato instead. I did start the day off good. I got on the elliptical for 5 minutes while waiting for my friend to get her for classes. I then ate Hacienda for lunch after my first class. I then had my second class after lunch. Pharmacology with the teacher who is hard. It's going to be nuts. I need all the smarts for this class. It was also my mom's birthday. She passed away over 14 years ago but it's still hard to deal with. I know my chinese was just for emotional reasons and not because I really wanted it. This is why Steph and I make a good team. She did her best to tell me no and then I was going to order it anyway but the more I thought about it. The more that I knew she was right. She gave me the strength to not reach for what I know I shouldn't have. I did do 12 more min on my elliptical after I got home from school. I also used the stairs at work in place of the elevator. Small changes will hopefully reap big rewards. 1月16日 Stephanie: Cheese TemptationsFirst of all Great Job Shelley for doing the high intensity work out even though you were tired. I am proud of you. I got my workout in tonight. I did 15 minutes on the elliptical. I pushed my self to do 5 more minutes today then Monday. I was ready to stop at 12 minutes but I pushed on to finish 15 minutes. I then went over to the treadmill and worked there for 45 minutes, alternating speeds. I progressed to fast walk/jog and then I ran (that's right). I only able to do it for 1 minute but I have not ran in years. I gotta start some place. I really felt my lungs burn on that one. Food wise I was doing great today. Then the cheese tray was brought in at work. I love cheese. I overindulged in the cheese. I ended up going over my points big time. Luckily I am not over my flex points. I am going to work on curbing the snacking on higher point foods. That is my goal for the week. Have a good night. Shelley: SurvivingI survived my first day of class. After class, I realized though that I still have some changes to make. Pop is going to be hard to resist with early classes. Ok, Steph is going to yell at me for this one. I had a mt dew for breakfast. 5 points and it helped keep me awake. I won't do it again though. I really need to up my activity level. Steph is kicking my butt in our challenge. I have numerous excuses not to exercise. I'm going to change that. I will do some form of exercise tonite. I will push myself above and beyond. Steph is doing great and is inspiring me. I'm going to stop with excuses. It's time for action. 1月15日 Stephanie: InspirationBy now most people have seen the Biggest Loser tonight. I have to say I was not surprised that the white team was voted off. Most teams felt Neil wasn't working as hard, so when they fell under the yellow line, I knew they were gone. I was sad to see Amanda go. She really seemed to want to stay. I want to say though is thank you to Neil for giving me the motivation to exercise this evening. I had all the excuses in the world not to ingrained in my brain. 1.) I really worked hard yesterday. 2)It was a long day at work. 3.) I am tired. 4) The Y is closed now. But after watching Neil on the Biggest Loser and how he did not give up after going home made me realize that I need to work hard to. I may be tired but I need to do something. So I got on my WW website and hooked up on the Ab workout. I only did one round of the work outs for 11 minutes but I did do it. I have not worked on my abs since I started so the crunches were not exactly the way they were supposed to be. Having a difficult time getting my shoulders off the ground. But I know the more I do the easier it will be. I have to say BIGGEST LOSER ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!! 1月14日 Stephaine: exercise Wow I feel pumped up! I just got back from exercising. I worked hard today. I started with 10 minutes on the elliptical machine. I really pushed my self on that one. Never mind that I felt like I wanted to fall over during the exercise and my lungs felt like they were going to burst. Then I went over to the treadmill and walked for 50 minutes. 10 minutes of it was at high intensity jogging. I did not think I could make it for 10 minutes on that as well. I spent 40 minutes walking at a moderate pace. That was much easier. But I have to saay that I feel great now. I feel full of energy now that I am done. To bad I do not have time to do this in the morning. My day may go better if I have that kind of energy. Food wise I am on track. I had low point food today so I still have points left whick is not really good but I did not go over so even better. Have a great night. Shelley: UGHOkay, I didn't so good yesterday and Steph got on me. Thank you Steph. This is a reason our partnership works so well. If one of us is off the other lets them know. I used all of my flex this weekend. Some of it was due to hubby and his chocolate milk but like Steph said. He didn't hold me down to drink it. It was the first time he worked against me. It won't happen again. I will stay within my points for the rest of this week. Next week i will act like I don't have flex left so I can stay on track. I'm famous for using my flex. I haven't gotten in any exercise this week. While it's a little late today, I will work on this tomorrow. I start my nursing classes on Wednesday so my stress level will go up but I will survive it. I can do this. The great thing is that Steph is a nurse and knows what I'm going through so I'm sure she will help get me through this as well. I love you, Steph! 1月12日 Stephanie : Official Weigh in Weigh in sucked today. I had a gain of + 0.4 lbs today. Which really is not much of a gain in the grand scheme of things. I was disapointed since I exercised alot this week and I won our Activity challenge for the week. The weight watcher's meeting was good. I love going there. There is so much support and our leader is fantastic. She is another reason why Shelley and I drive 45 mins to another town to go to WW. Shelley actually has a longer drive because she drives from her town to mine about 15 mins then another 45 mins to our meeting site. That is one of the great things about this team. We go out of our way for each other to make sure we get what we need no matter what. Today Shelley was unable to make it to the meeting due to a prior commitment. She was texting me about 5 mins after I was weighed to see how I did. After I told her of my gain, she was texting me support and reminders about my retaining water at the moment and it will come off next week. I just need to stay positve. (Thanks for the pep talk this morning) She is right. I am going to continue to work hard. Have a great night. Shelley: Good and BadOkay, today had it's good and bad points. I did an unofficial weigh in and it showed me down 1.8 lbs at 239.4. It was good. I didn't do so good on food but I will do better tomorrow. I used quite a bit of flex. I have to learn not to let myself get to hungry. It's my biggest problem. I had chinese for lunch. It's not that I ate a great deal but chinese is high in points. I waited to eat until 1 this afternoon. I was running late for CPR and didn't want to be late so I didn't eat. I topped it off with pizza rolls for supper. No exercise today but watch out tomorrow. I will pick up and move on. 1月11日 Stephanie: Activity point challengeHello all. Hope everyone is having a good night. It has been a busy day. Today is the end of our first week activity challenge. It went well. I earned 9 points and Shelley earned eight. So This week I am the winner. I get to wear the bracelet. We both worked hard and kicked butt. Great Job Shelley. Shelley came in to town today. We took new pictures to update the site. Then we went for a 45 min walk. It was great. We got to exercise together and just talk in person. Texting and IM is one thing but nothing beats the motivation talk in person. After our walk we went to dinner to Applebees. I love their food and the fact they have a great tasting weight watchers menu is even better. The Confetti chicken is so good and only 7 points. I still have 13 points left to use, though I doubt I will be eating much. I am not hungry at this time. Tomorrow is weigh in time for me at weight watchers. I am hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. I am bloating and could be retaining water which could keep the scales from moving down. Lets hope not. On the positive side, I am officially down a size in blue jeans. When I first started WW, I could not even pull these jeans up over my hips. When I tried them on last month, they we up over the hips but not able to even come close to buttoning them. Last week, the button was so close. Today not only did I get them on, I was able to button them. HIP HIP HORRAY!!!!They are a little snug still but baby steps. Have a wonderful night. 1月10日 Shelley: My StoryI noticed Steph told her story so I guess I should tell mine. Unlike a lot of people, I didn't always have a problem with my weight. During high school, my highest weight was 150. I never thought I was overweight and never worried about my weight. I was too busy taking care of my mom. After graduation, I got married to my first husband who wasn't the nicest person in the world. My mom was diagnosed with cancer. Throught this stress I actually lost weight and got down to 120 pounds. Then the hardest year of my life occured, I lost my mom to cancer and my first husband in a car accident 7 months apart. To make a long story short, I got married again to my high school sweetheart a year and a half after my first husband was killed. A year later I gave birth to my son. It was after his birth that my weight slowly started to go up. I would diet and lose 10 pounds and then quit and gain 20. I repeated this cycle for 11 years. I got up to my highest weight of 270 in June of 2007. I can't say that I really had a light bulb moment. I know I had a couple of embarrasing moments. Like my neice (Steph's daughter), my son likes to ride roller coasters. I usually had no problem fitting on them but I didn't fit on one at Cedar Point. My son who is 11 is very grown up and just looked at me and said that it was a reason to lose weight. I got off the coaster and he rode it by himself. I want to go back and get on that coaster. My son is wanting to do the waterparks now as well. I hate feeling like a beached whale. I have so many reasons to lose. I have a lot of people supporting me. THere is not one reason for me not to do this. I lost 12 pounds prior to joining weight watchers with Steph in October. I have since lost 17 pounds with 10 pounds being lost while recuperating from foot surgery. I've followed this plan for 13 weeks now. Steph and I are a great team and aren't afraid to call each other on what we need to improve on and pushing ourselves. We are going to lose this weight for good. Stephanie: Weight problemHello, It has been a long day. I really just wanted to cave today and pig out on anything and everything. I tried hard to stay on plan. Not bad in the beginning. I ate low point breakfast and lunch. Later in the afternoon I did some mindless snacking. I am not even sure why. I was not hungry. I just started eating. I stopped myself then but then it carried over to dinner. I have been craving Bruno's pizza. They have the best pizza in town. It is so good that I can literally eat 1/2 of it, and that was what I did. Somehow I did not go over in points. By the time I was done, I ate just down to 0 points. Still 24 points worth of pizza was weighing me down. I was on the verge of saying what the heck. But I remembered what Shelly has said all along. We are going to make mistakes. We need to pick our self up, dust off and start again. I then exercised. I walked for 31 minutes and earned 2 activity points. I started weight watchers in October because I was tired of feeling horrible about myself and I was having a lot of lower back pain. My oldest child is starting to love roller coasters. I love them. The bigger, the faster, the better is my thought. I have not ridden one in over a year. I remember last time I did, the seat wall feeling snug and the seat belt was as far as it would go. Then they put the bar down. I had to suck it it to make sure the bar was in place. I knew I was getting bigger and soon I wouldn't fit in the coaster anymore. So I avoided them. I would make up excuses why I couldn't ride. I know my daughter wanted me to ride them but I was afraid to try in case I couldn't fit in them. I didn't want to embarrass my self or my daughter. But as much as I was afraid to try to fit in the coaster, I was more afraid to change my life. I have always found comfort in eating. I have tried diets before but I always had to give up my comfort foods and I did not know how to cope so I always failed. Last summer I suffered a miscarriage. It was the hardest thing I have ever went through. I felt so alone. I really kicked in to comfort mode. I would put my kids to bed and then I would just eat anything and everything. I would feel comfort and like everything was ok. The turning point came to me when I was walking up my stairs. I got winded. One of my kids asked me why I was breathing so hard. Why was I. I only walked up some stairs. It made me take a long look at what I have been doing to myself. Next thing I knew I weighed 246 pounds. I started having back pain around the same time. My doctor couldn't find anything wrong and gave me some anti inflammatory medication to help. About two weeks later, I woke up with the most severe pain in my chest. It also felt like someone was pushing on my chest. I was scared. I ended up in the emergency room. It turned out to be the antiinflammatory medication were tearing up my stomach lining. It scared me into realizing I need to get healthy. Lose the weight and lose the problems associated with it. So I joined weight watchers. They have been amazing. I have lost 26 pounds so far and today I buttoned a pair of pants I have not fit into in a over a year. YIPPEE. I have to say joining WW was the best thing I could have done. Thanks to Shelley and WW I am on track. 1月9日 Stephanie: First dayGood evening. It is day one of the biggest loser million pound match up for team weight loss mammas. I joined forces with my sister-in-law Shelley. We both have similar ideas and goals in mind. I started dieting because I was disgusted with myself. I fas fat, unhappy, and I had back pain. I started at 246 pounds. I currently have lost 26 lounds and today my weight starts here at 220lb. Many things have changed since I first took the step to lose weight. I started eating more vegatable, smaller portions, and drank more water. One of the biggest changes I made was to stop dieting. Dieting does not work for me. I will lose some and gain back even more. I have made a lifestyle change. I never would have been able to make it this far if it were not for Shelly. She is my rock and strongest supporter. We keep in touch daily but texting each other our highs and lows. I also text her when I need strength to resist. Thanks for all you do Shelly. ShelleyMy name is Shelley. I'm 33 years old and have been battling my weight for quite a while. I met Steph 14 years ago. She is married to my brother. She is more then my sister in law. She is my best friend and sister. We have undertaken this weight loss journey together. I feel together we can achieve whatever we set our minds to. In October, we joined weight watchers and have already had a successes. I'm down 17 pounds on the weight watchers flex plan. I had lost some weight prior to joining ww. I have lost a total of 29 pounds.
As far as my reasons to losing weight, I want to have better health for my family. I currently have no weight related health problems and don't want them either. I'm looking forward to being a thinner healthier me. Steph and I make a great team. I can't wait to see the results of our hardwork! Steph is my rock and without her I couldn't do this. Thank you Steph for being my friend and giving me your shoulder to cry on!!! |
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